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concept creation. Situated within seat of intellectualized,
the paradigm of complexity-thinking instrumental education, where
for the humanities, it is assumed theoretical knowledge production
that knowledge production depends predominates and aesthetics is
on making a paradigmatic shift underplayed. As a counterbalance,
beyond both self-confident the Chair focusses on the power of
conceptual models and self- “aesthetic wisdom” to develop the
assertive anti-conceptual strategies. critical and creative innovators
Researchers are called to modify needed to re-imagine emancipatory
ingrained habits of thought and social spaces and dynamics. It aims
configure not top-down theoretical to provide a safe and stimulating
methods to articulate the environment for intellectual
complexity of events, but heuristics. experimentation and a re-
Heuristics are educational devices, conception of knowledge
or helpful procedures, rather than production, which draws on
fixed-rule models, which stimulate emotive and affective responses to
independent critique and experiences, senses and bodies, to
encourage people to imagine stimulate the imagination and
solutions for themselves. critical reflection in novel and
But, the academy is traditionally the unique ways.
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